Latest news on the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on September 14

Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend the presentation of speeches by both Houses of Parliament at Westminster Hall, inside the Palace of Westminster, in central London, on September 12, 2022, following the death of Queen Camilla. Queen Elizabeth II on September 8. (Photo by JOHN SIBLEY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II will be transferred from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the Houses of Parliament, on Wednesday. Here are some key details about the historic room. The hall is over 900 years old, as construction began in 1097 under the reign of William II, son of William the Conqueror. The first recorded coronation banquet for a king took place in the Hall in 1189, for King Richard I, the Lionheart. Henry VIII’s coronation banquet took place in the Hall in 1509, as did the banquet for his ill-fated second wife, Anne Boleyn, in 1533, and for his daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, in 1559. Guy Fawkes, the The most famous of the Arms Plot conspirators, he was tried at the Hall in 1606. So was King Charles I in 1649, after losing the English Civil War and being executed. Queen Elizabeth’s mother and father lay to rest in Westminster Hall before her: King George VI in 1952 and Queen Elizabeth the Catholic in 2002. So did her grandfather George V in 1936 and her great-grandfather Edward VII in 1910 – the first real site Winston Churchill was laid to rest in Westminster Hall after his death in 1965. Nelson Mandela made a speech in the Hall as President of South Africa in 1996.